The aide, Brett Picou of P.S. 52 in Springfield Gardens, is accused of repeatedly touching the buttocks of 9- and 10-year-olds at the school.

A J Gogia, the taxi guru of Little India, prepares students from all over the world for the strenuous test given by the city for a yellow cab driver’s license.

Teachers: An Invitation to Respond to Your Data Report
New York Times
By Jodi Rudoren 2:03 pm | Updated Under a court order based on the Freedom of Information Law, the New York City Department of Education plans to release its Teacher Data Reports — individual ratings of thousands of the system's educators determined ...
Grading Teachers Sparks Conflict as States Vie for GrantsBusinessWeek
Grading teachersCNN (blog)
No Student Left UntestedThe New York Review of Books (blog)
Education Week News (blog) -National Review Online
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Publicly ranking teachers by name will not help them get better at their jobs or improve student learning.

Educators are invited to respond to their ratings in the Teacher Data Reports, soon to be released publicly by the New York City Department of Education.

As new “parent-trigger” laws seem poised to allow parents to take over failing schools, they’re already the stuff of Hollywood drama.

The court’s decision in a new case has the potential to undo an accommodation on affirmative action in higher education reached by the court in 2003.

A forthcoming book takes up the problem of legal education, from within and without.

The Supreme Court’s reconsideration of race as a factor in college admissions comes only nine years after a case that upheld the practice.

Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Research on the relationship between teacher characteristics and teacher effectiveness has been underway for over a century, yet little progress has been made in linking teacher quality with factors ...

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Queens students, educators call mayor's schools plan disastrous
Queens Chronicle
The move, Bloomberg said, was an attempt to salvage $60 million in education funding specifically meant for the 33 schools that the state had withheld because of the lack of a deal on teacher evaluations. After Gov. Cuomo intervened, a major sticking ...

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Who was Anthony Shadid?

New York Daily News
Ravitch Says New Evaluation System Is 'Madness'
New York Times
By Mary Ann Giordano The public schools may be closed all week for February Break, but critics and other writers are busy examining the new teacher evaluation agreement that was reached last week. The education historian and writer, Diane Ravitch, ...
Accurate or faulty, new teacher evaluations are comingNew York Daily News
Testing teaching, teaching testingThe Economist (blog)
School breakthroughBuffalo News
GothamSchools -NBC New York -Politics on the Hudson (blog)
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The public schools may be closed all week for February Break, but critics and other writers are busy examining the new teacher evaluation agreement that was reached last week. Among the critics: Diane Ravitch and The Daily News columnist, Juan Gonzalez.

Shifting the clinical teaching paradigm in undergraduate nursing education
EurekAlert (press release)
To this end, researchers from the New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN), funded with a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education Program, have just published a description of an evaluation ...

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THIRTEEN/WNET New York Public Media Recognizes National Mission US Educator of ...
Bradenton Herald
21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- THIRTEEN/WNET New York Public Media has named Marc Cizenski, a classroom teacher in the Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES in Liverpool, New York, as the National Mission US Educator of the Year.

New Study Finds iPads in the Classroom Boost Test Scores
TIME
Indeed, schools are embracing the new tablet from early elementary to higher education, lauding the iPad for improving classroom engagement and teaching methods. According to the New York Times, New York City public schools have ordered more than 2000 ...

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Can you calculate the number of foreign students who are freshmen at a certain university who are not from China, if given the total number of freshmen, the percentage of foreign students who are freshmen and the percentage of that group who are from China?

What items are for sale in vending machines and the school store? What do you tend to choose to eat, and why? Do you think new government rules might change students' habits, including yours?

Bronx Substitute Teacher Charged With Forcible Touching
NBC New York
The 27-year-old substitute teacher becomes the fourth school district employee charged with inappropriately touching a student in just a matter of weeks. Another New York City school teacher has been arrested for allegedly touching a student ...

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